Cut to a die, not to a stock size

Custom Package Stickers Manufacturer: ±0.2 mm Die-Cut Labels Built to Reduce Line Rejections

Give the pack more shelf presence with high-saturation print that stays flat—no curling or edge peel. Cold-resistant adhesive and waterproof face stock keep automatic application smooth on glass, plastic, and corrugated packaging.

  • 01Run500–500,000 units
  • 02Hold−18 °C to 70 °C
  • 03Samples7–10 days from proof
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A pile of printed die-cut stickers in assorted shapes and colors, one blank-cut sheet reading your logo or textArtwork

6 900000 000000

Product name · Net weight 000 g

Lot 000000 · Best before 00 / 0000

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Nine families to start from

Nine Label Types, and the Job Each One Does

Each card carries the stock that ships and a property that decides something. By the fourth card the choice is usually obvious.

  • A roll of cream kraft bottle-neck labels, one blocked in gold lettering, on a pale surfaceLA-01

    Custom Kraft Paper Labels

    Uncoated, takes a pen

    Uncoated and cream: a pen, a stamp and a handwritten batch code all take to it.

  • Two round glossy stickers held between finger and thumb, their printed colors catching the lightGL-02

    Glossy Package Stickers

    Highest color pop

    The face for a photograph — gloss holds the saturation matte flattens.

  • A sheet of matte-finish stickers for coffee brands, in muted colors on a white backingMT-03

    Matte Package Stickers

    No flare under a lamp

    Matte kills the flare a shop spotlight throws, and wipes clean without a smear.

  • A chilled bottle beaded with condensation, its printed label lying flat and undisturbedWP-04

    Waterproof Custom Package Stickers

    Ice bucket and fridge

    More labels end in condensation than in handling. This one sits through ice and fridge.

  • A clear sticker sheet carrying holographic and printed designs, laid on a pale wooden surfaceCP-05

    Clear PET Package Stickers

    No white edge

    No white edge on glass: the product reads unlabelled, the sticker still carries the barcode.

  • A gold foil-blocked seal with a laurel border reading Premium, on a cream backgroundFS-06

    Foil Stamped Package Stickers

    Real metal, not gold ink

    Metal, not a gold-colored print — the cheapest premium signal a package can carry.

  • A hand peeling a small die-cut car decal away from its backing sheetDC-07

    Die Cut Package Stickers

    Any contour, ±0.2 mm

    Whatever outline you send is what the blade follows, not a stock rectangle.

  • A round printed thank-you sticker being pressed onto a kraft mailer boxCL-08

    Custom Logo Stickers for Packages

    Seals the carton

    One sticker closes a mailer, carries the logo and replaces a strip of branded tape.

  • Three rolls of printed labels on a pale blue surface, one carrying a tear-here stripRL-09

    Custom Package Sticker Rolls

    Hand or machine applied

    Cut onto a lined roll, so the roll can be machine-fed — 200 cartons or 20,000 of them.

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Two tools, one label

The Artwork and the Die Are Two Different Tools

A designer draws the label. A diemaker draws the outline that cuts it. The two agree on one file before anything is printed — which is why the artwork sits back from the cut, and why the blade stops short of the backing.

  1. 01
    A printed label sheet with crop marks and a logo mark repeated across it, laid on a wood bench with a steel rule and a pencil

    The artwork

    Drawn at the finished size, with the cut line on its own layer.

    The barcode survives the blade.

  2. 02
    A plywood cutting die with a logo and a parcel mark cut through it, the red backing board showing in the grooves

    The die

    Registered to the print: the trim, the 1.5 mm gap and the cut depth.

    A reorder needs no new tooling.

  3. 03
    A roll of printed labels wound on a core, one label lifted away at its peel corner

    The format

    In a roll, kiss-cut on a 76 mm core; or loose cut through the backing.

    Chosen to match how it is applied.

A quote in one exchange

Start From the Surface, Not the Spec Sheet

Say what the label goes on and how many you need. The stock, the adhesive and the print route follow from those two answers, and the quote says why each was chosen.

Tell Me What It Goes On
The bond, not the print

The Surface Decides the Adhesive

Nearly every label we print sticks to one of six surfaces. Get the pairing wrong and it curls, clouds or slides off, which reads as a printing fault when it never was one.

What you're labellingThe adhesive it takes

  • On the surface

    Flat board

    Dry, flat and sealed, with no radius and no oil to work around.

    Takes the adhesivePermanent acrylic

    Aggressive and immediate, which is why nothing lifts over time.

  • On the surface

    Curved bottle

    A face that has to follow the radius of the bottle.

    Takes the adhesiveConformable, with an overlap

    Soft enough to bend with the curve instead of bridging across it.

  • On the surface

    Oily jar

    Oil at the shoulder of a jar crawls under an acrylic and lifts it.

    Takes the adhesiveRubber-based, high tack

    Enough tack to grip through the film of oil.

  • On the surface

    Chilled and wet

    Milk tanks and cold rooms, where water sits between the label and the glass.

    Takes the adhesiveWet-surface acrylic

    Pushes the water aside rather than sitting on top of it.

  • On the surface

    Frozen, −18 °C

    A standard adhesive goes hard below freezing and pops off.

    Takes the adhesiveFreezer-grade

    Stays soft enough to hold through the freeze.

  • On the surface

    Recycled kraft

    Dusty, porous board that drinks adhesive.

    Takes the adhesiveExtra-coverage coat

    A heavier coat, which is what keeps the corners down on day three.

Test It on My Surface
What it is made of

Four Substrates, Four Ways a Label Fails

Each stock buys a property and pays for it in another. The failure named on each panel is what that stock exists to prevent.

  • Rolls of clear BOPP film and printed tape standing on a wooden table

    BOPP film

    Sharpest print of the four

    Clear or white film with a glossy face, which is why it prints the sharpest of the four. Left on a sunlit shelf it hardens. It belongs indoors on a jar, not outdoors on a crate.

    Fails atGoes brittle in sunlight
  • Rolls of colored vinyl film in pink, yellow and blue, fanned out on a white surface

    Vinyl (PVC)

    Outdoors and in water

    Water resistant, UV resistant and soft enough to conform to a curve. The stock for anything that spends its life outside or below the waterline — the price is the trade.

    Fails atCosts the most
  • A roll of gold metallic foil paper unwinding across a pale surface

    Metallic foil

    Returns the room light

    Refuses a laser scanner, and turns as the angle changes. It reads as the room rather than as a print, which is why a foil panel and a barcode belong on two different labels.

    Fails atWill not read as a barcode
  • A roll of cream textured synthetic paper unwinding on a wooden surface

    Textured synthetic

    Tactile, and crack-free

    Paper-look, and it shrugs off water and bends around a tight radius without splitting, printed with a texture you can feel under a thumb. No pen marks it.

    Fails atNothing writes on it
What the surface does

Five Finishes, Scored Against Four Failures

Four things end a label's life early: a scuff, water, sunlight and cold. The grid scores each finish against them and against its unit cost, because the print is the cheapest part of a label and the area is what you pay for. Say where the pack lives and the choice narrows to two.

Five label finishes scored against scuffing, moisture, sunlight and cold, with their relative unit cost
FinishScuffScuffMoistureMoistSunlightSunColdColdUnit costCost
MatteGlare goes, fingerprints stayWeakensHoldsHoldsHolds$
GlossThe default under a cameraBright, and it wipes cleanHoldsHoldsHoldsHolds$
HolographicDoubles as anti-copyHoldsHoldsWeakensHolds$$$
Soft-touchBest under a dry hand, worst under a greasy oneWeakensWeakensHoldsHolds$$$
Spot UV + embossRaises the mark off the face, so a thumb finds itHoldsWeakensHoldsHolds$$

holds weakens$ relative unit cost, from lowest to highest

Matte is the finish most buyers move to after a first reprint.

The same sticker, four standards

What Each Vertical Demands of the Label

The artwork barely changes between these four. What changes is the standard the label has to meet after it leaves the plant. That standard picks the stock, rather than the file as sent.

  • Two printed food cans with tomato labels on a pale pink background

    Food and drink

    Your label goes freezer, chilled aisle, shelf without a wrinkle, and the barcode still scans at the till.

    • FDA 21 CFR Part 701
    • Migration-safe adhesive
    • Freezer-grade adhesive
  • A die-cut sheet of cosmetics stickers — lipstick, perfume and nail polish in pink and red

    Beauty and cosmetics

    On a curved bottle it lies flat and holds its color under a spotlight all day, so the shelf premium survives the shop floor.

    • Conforms to a radius
    • Solvent resistant
    • Foil and spot UV
  • A kraft parcel closed with printed tape and carrying a printed shipping label

    Shipping and fulfilment

    Courier networks are where a label is tested hardest, and a label that gives there is a parcel pulled out for manual re-sorting.

    • Thermal printer ready
    • Tear resistant
    • Roll-fed
  • A kraft stand-up pouch stamped with a round Organic seal, filled with dried goods

    Handmade and small batch

    Five hundred units still buy a premium look, on the stock that suits a hand-stamped product.

    • From 500 units
    • Kraft and textured paper
    • Digital, no plate
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Presses and inspection

Precision Printing for Bulk Labels

Our advanced rotary presses control color drift and die-cutting tolerances to microscopic levels. The result is a bulk roll that feeds a high-speed applicator without a stop.

  • ΔE < 1.5Color drift control
  • 1,000,000+Daily capacity (Pcs)
  • ±0.2 mmDie-cutting precision
  • A multi-station flexographic press with a web of printed cosmetic labels running through it
    High-Speed Rotary Flexo Printing
  • A press station with a polished brass roller, its web of gold-blocked labels re-winding onto a large roll
    Premium Foil & Spot UV Finishes
  • A camera inspection head over a running web of printed labels, re-winding onto a finished roll
    100% Automated Optical Inspection

Engineering Assurance: Every production run undergoes inline electronic color monitoring and full-process matrix tracking. By utilizing servo-driven die-cutting and high-tensile glassine liners, we maintain identical physical tolerances and roll tension profiles across million-piece batches, ensuring your labels deploy flawlessly on high-speed automated applicators.

From file to roll

Five Stops, From Press File to Shipped Roll

Two of the five happen before a single label is printed, and both are the ones that decide whether the run is right.

  1. 01
    Day 0–1

    Artwork check

    The file is read before a die is quoted, and what comes back is a short list of anything that would have stopped the run. No charge for the check, and no die is drawn until the list is clear.

  2. 02
    Day 1–3

    Die and press proof

    Your outline is cut into the die, and the proof is printed on the stock you chose rather than on a generic sheet. Nothing goes on the press until that proof is signed.

  3. 03
    Day 3–10

    Sample roll

    A short run off the real die, with the cut, the peel and the color all tested by hand. Seven to ten days from proof approval, and the sample is credited against the production order.

  4. 04
    Week 2–5

    The run

    Press time is booked at the proof, on the stock booked with it, at the gap and the register the drawing specifies. Four to six weeks door to door on a sea shipment, on a slot that was locked the day the proof was signed.

  5. 05
    On dispatch

    Inspection and pallet

    Each roll is checked for register and for cut depth before it is wound onto the core, shrink-wrapped and palleted with a packing sheet. Under 0.2% of what ships arrives unusable.

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Not Just a Pretty Packaging

  • Permanent
  • Recyclable face material
  • FSC® Certified
  • Soy-based inks
Customer scenarios

How Buyers Use Them

Six orders, six surfaces, three at a time. Each frame is a label doing the job it was chosen for.

  • Two hands pressing a round printed sticker onto a dark jewelry box, with rings and earrings laid out on stone trays behind

    Jewelry box

  • A kraft carton sealed with a printed coffee-roaster sticker band, standing on a slate floor

    Coffee carton

  • Bottles and jars of skincare carrying round printed labels on a dark shelf, raking sunlight across them

    Skincare shelf

  • Two rolls of printed stickers on a bench, a hand peeling one away to seal a kraft carton

    Packing bench

  • A glass jar of preserves held under a running tap, its printed label wet and still lying flat

    Jar under the tap

  • Kraft gift boxes tied with twine and closed with round printed thank-you stickers

    Thank-you parcel

Both of these came back

Reviews From Buyers Who Reordered

  • We seal every order with a printed thank-you sticker, a small thing to get wrong and a very visible thing when it is. Matte came back flat and consistent across three SKUs, and the colors were read against the chip we signed rather than against a screen.

    Nothing about our outline was print-ready. Someone on their side redrew it to clear the print and had it back the same day, which is why the first run left on the promised date.

    Two thousand stickers landed a week ahead of the date on the order confirmation, and the third run matches the first — a reorder is a matter of quoting the same file.

    Portrait of Emily RodriguezEmily RodriguezMarketing Director · United States

  • I sell from a spare room, which is a size most printers do not want to talk to you about. My first file had the artwork at roughly half the resolution it needed at final size; they caught it, told me the number it had to be, and charged nothing for the check.

    Kraft mailers are dusty and unforgiving. Six hundred went out over a fortnight and no corner lifted, including the cartons left in a cold van overnight.

    Wound on the core with the liner unbroken, the roll went straight into the dispenser, and the cut has matched on the two reorders since.

    Portrait of Lisa ThompsonLisa ThompsonOnline Seller · United Kingdom
Six answers

Six Answers Before the Artwork Goes Out

The questions that come up between approving a proof and opening the first carton.

01Can you match the label we already buy from another printer?

Send a sample of the label being replaced, unstuck from the bottle or the carton. A physical piece carries the face, the cut depth and the adhesive in a way no file describes, and it settles what the replacement has to equal before anything is quoted. Where the current label has lifted is the part of the brief worth telling us about.

02How close will the color be to the brand palette?

A spot color goes on press as a mixed ink and is matched to a physical chip, not to a screen — which is the part buyers find hardest to accept, because each screen renders the same hex differently. A chip is signed before the run, so the color is argued about once and not at every reprint.

03What happens if the outline changes after the die is cut?

A change inside the outline — a legal line, an ingredient list, a price — is a change to the artwork alone and leaves the die untouched. Moving the outline itself needs a new blade, because the blade is cut to that line and cannot be edited.

04Several different labels on a single order — is that possible?

Yes. Each design is cut on its own die and wound onto its own roll, which means a mixed pallet arrives already sorted and nothing on the packing line has to be separated by hand.

05If the cut or the color is off when the roll arrives, what happens?

The signed proof is the reference, and a roll that does not match it is remade at our cost on the same tool — scheduled ahead of new work rather than behind it.

06Is the label recyclable, and what happens to the backing paper?

A paper face from FSC-certified stock with soy-based ink is recyclable in most streams. The release liner is silicone-coated and generally is not, which is a real limit on a sticker and worth knowing before a sustainability claim goes on the pack.

Artwork in, labels out

Send Artwork, Get a Die and a Price

A vector file, a phone photo of a sketch, or a shape drawn on paper — any of the three is enough to cut a die from. What comes back names the face, the adhesive for your surface, the print route, the die, and a unit rate at the quantity in question.

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